What’s Writing All About?

I always shake my head when people talk about “multi-tasking” and what an essential skill it is for the next generation and blah blah blah. I don’t believe a word of it.

For me — and I’m willing to bet this applies to everybody, on any career path — the key to productive work is concentrated effort, pushing aside distractions, trying to achieve a diamond-shaped focus on what’s in front of you.

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The research supports you — multitasking is really “rapidly shifting monotasking,” and is less productive than concentrated effort. That’s why I’ve taken to turning off the Internet for hours at a time.